A dreadful way to start the morning

Even before the sun arose this morning, I found myself on a Saint Cloud MetroBus after only 95 minutes of sleep and forced to sit next to someone reeking of cigarette smoke. At the same time, the bus driver was blasting “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” by the 1980s glam-metal group “Poison” from his boom-box.

Minus 50,000 points to the bus driver for torturing us passengers. Next time, buddy, tune your radio to FM 90.1 and leave it there. #%$&!

Minus 100,000 points to the cigarette smoker. No further explanation is necessary.

Minus 500,000 points to the group “Poison” for poisoning our the world with the music equivalent of the television show Jersey Shore.

After finally arriving home and getting a hot shower, five hours of sleep, and half-a-quart of Gatorade, these still were not quite enough to scrub my brain. This is one of those occasions that required “swatting a fly with a Patriot missile,” so to speak: Deutsche Grammophon’s’s Mad About Baroque CD (DG, 439 147-2, 1993, NLA). Specifically, Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” from Solomon, HWV 67.

Beware the dangers of incredibly stupid music spewed forth on somebody else’s boom-box; it happened to me this morning and I lost about 65 brain cells.